A View from the Stands: Of People, Politics, Military Power, and the Arts - Hardcover

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039535319X ISBN 13: 9780395353196

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1986

Synopsis

Comments on economics, world affairs, and domestic and foreign policies from the end of the depression to the present and limns portraits of statesmen, writers, and other figures

About this title

About the Author:

John Kenneth Galbraith who was born in 1908, is the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus at Harvard University and a past president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the distinguished author of thirty-one books spanning three decades, including The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard, Oxford, the University of Paris, and Moscow University, and in 1997 he was inducted into the Order of Canada and received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2000, at a White House ceremony, he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From Publishers Weekly:

Galbraith's celebrated wit and intelligence inform this miscellany of short pieces published over the past three decades. With a few exceptions (including a fine exploration of economics and the arts), the Harvard economist and author (The New Industrial State, etc.) sets aside economics to gather reviews of favored writers (from Mencken to Robertson Davies), travel observations, profiles (JFK, Henry Luce) and analyses of issues from Harvard's governance to arms control. One dips in and rediscovers the pleasures, say, of reading Evelyn Waugh, meets Indian art historians, journeys with the author to Brazil and Argentina. The collection, sure to appeal to Galbraith admirers, is an interesting view of this multifaceted liberal thinker's enthusiasms and concerns.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 039535319X
• ISBN 13: 9780395353196
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 449